Here, There, Where?
Currently, the world’s population is at 7.7 billion people and increasing. Majority of our earth’s surface (71%) is covered by oceans which means only 29 per cent is what makes up mainland. We are curious beings but is our home still an alien planet?
HERE
The deepest hole that was created by humans is the Kola Superdeep Borehole. The digging process took 24 years and was officially stopped in 1994. The hole is now 12,262 meters deep, Mount Everest is only 8,848 meters while the deepest natural point we know sits at 11,034 meters deep (Mariana Trench).
There is still a lot we need to find out and explore. So, while we still wonder what’s here, what could be out there?
There
June 20, 2019, will mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landing which saw one of the greatest leaps we have ever made. Until today, the moon is probably the furthest place man has been from home. On the contrary, our spacecrafts have travelled further than most people can even imagine. The Voyager 1 which was launched in 1977 holds this record and with it carries a Golden Record, excuse the pun :). The Golden Record is a disc that holds sounds and images from earth, this information has to be decoded but hopefully, some intelligent alien life finds voyager, triangulates our position and bob’s your uncle. You can watch the contents of the disc from here.
Where
So will Voyager ever reach the end? I believe not — because the universe is still expanding and nobody still knows what is beyond the observable universe. It is however predicted that it will stop transmitting information back to earth by 2025. I would recommend this interesting short video on how big the universe is and what we currently know about it.
